ON SOME TERMS EMPLOYED TO DENOTE SOUL OR SPIRIT. BY JOHN BARCLAY. And I come after, glening here and there, And am ful glad if I maie find an eare Chaucer. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SMITH, ELDER, AND CO. MDCCCXXVI. PREFACE. THE following Essay on English Verbs treats of their formation from one another, and of the effect of certain terminating syllables - a subject which has not yet received that attention from our Lexicographers and Grammarians which it deserves. The Remarks on "The Diversions of Purley" are mostly a selection from Notes, written on perusal of that Work. In the Remarks on some Names of the Soul, I have ventured to differ from authors, whose opinion it may well appear presumption in me to controvert: but I have not done so rashly, or without a careful consideration of the subject; and I have stated, at great length, my reasons for differing from them. It may not be superfluous to add, that I consider it purely a philological question. Calcots, June, 1826. |